daniruy

Happy birthday!

You came into my life 15 years ago, changing my love of gaming magazines to you, guys. I have been reading you daily ever since, and learning a lot from you.

Thank yoi for yoir hard work!

Now, Nintendo should find a way to Mario Maker the songs that come from it, because people go nuts with the Music Computer, like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_iaGf73Bq0&list=PL4IZq7fxXgMp702qe0LVqBXcG_12P6G7t&index=4

I have been doing retro gaming for a while. Game Boy and SNES mainly - Nintendo Switch subscription has been great for that, although I do prefer the Virtual Console.

Fixing my Game Boy Color, modding it and discovering hack to old games is a lot of fun, so I am spending my gaming time mostly with that.

Also, Xbox Game Pass is indeed great when it works. As of late, queues of 45 minutes are obscene. I am going back to the UK so I will be able to afford more games. In Brazil, there's no way I'd spend 5000 on the console and almost a fifth of it in every game.

The NA does it for me, due to its Conan vibes

I've played Mega Man X and X2 on the Legacy Collection for Switch—such wonderful games, honestly.

But the weekend is over before I could advance on X3...

Without any doubt, I've spent the weekend playing <b>Perfect Dark</b> on NSO. The controllers could have been updated but what a lovely game that is. I think I played it las about 10 years ago or more.

I knownthe feeling mate. As a teacher and father of two and husband, and student, and this, and that, I have many responsabilities that often trigger my anxiety.

Zelda and Rocket League do the same for me. I am either taking my sweet time exploring a bit of Hyrule, or trying to get one more victory. And that helps.

One thing at a time, mate. We'll get thwre and we'll be okay.

That was some sad piece of news on a Friday. I think Toriyama has been my most read comic book artist. I've read the entire Dragon Ball saga multiple times, as well as watched the films. Chrono Trigger is still one of my favorite games of all times.

If it was only for the drawings, that wouldn't be why he is so influential. It's the entire worldmaking. This incredible artist who inspires us so much might be on a similar level of Tolkien to me, with all the fantasy and the imagination as well as conversations with my brother and friends.

RIP and may God comfort his family, friends and us all.

Well, thanks for featuring mine lovely people. What a joy! Now, Time Extension has my full attention too.
Cheers, mate.

Try buying Lufia 1 and 2 for SNES - which I have many times because I love those games - they are important to me because I played it with my brother, learned English partially through it (and Mega Man X) and love the soundtrack.

I think that, in cases like these, emulators should be "decriminalised", or else they will disappear indeed. I would love to play them with my daughters legally so I can teach them to value the industry and the people who make good things for our enjoyment.

First letter was amazing. All of them are actually. Well done excellent writers. I feel cultured already!

I am doubling up on Zelda: mainly TOTK but also Oracle of Seasons for my modded Game Boy Color!

The European one. It has a Conan The Barbarian vibe which I love. I imagined this as a Conan story panel - and it would be right at home. Lovely.

@Maximumbeans good idea. Although my device is American... I might try that though

I love my 3DS. I bought it on week 2, all the way back in 2011 in Brazil. Then I moved to the UK and had to build my library digitally - due to the stupid region lock. I've been playing Game boy titles a lot in it.

Now, I've got a problem: battery. I have recently replaced it for a new third-party battery, but the console doesn't hold charge for more than 30min. Ié heard it might be the charger port that needs replacing. Did anybody do that already?

Cheers, folks - and long live the 3DS.

Okay, you will make me boot 64 3D again on my 11 years old 3DS. Thanks, guys, it was time for some Star Fox.

If this is as surprisingly good as Behold the Kickman, count me in.

I would play this Capcom Astroboy to death.

I really regret that, in our day and age, people still don't know this as they should. When I was a boy, I played this SO MUCH with my brother, and when he got bored I still continued and here we are, 25 years later STILL PLAYING THAT GORGEOUS game.

I read the headline joyfully, then I saw the timelines and recalled Netflix has a lot of unnecessary sex, profanity and nudity in their shows (why Castlevania?), signs of bad writing, that my interest faded.

I laughed so much at those videos. Honestly so much. The Green Hill Zone was the best. Oh, the glories of the motherland.

@Borshi I would play that in a heartbeat.

@Borshi hahaha. Don’t blame you. What a game. My favourite rental every Friday after school.

Good for my countrymen! Although I would certainly appreciate if Nintendo released translated games in Portuguese.

Although, I must say, without that I had all the motivation I needed to learn English. I had to understand why Zero was so amazing and Mega Man X just blue.

Finally, I'll have some rest from Trick Room. It is annoying me way too much.

This is a very different beast from Ocarina. I remember (and still play) Ocarina of Time as a tale of joy - the boy who got a fairy, lost his infancy and recovered it back at the end.

I remember playing Majora e feeling a very different sensation. If was a fun game but not a joyful one. It was strange. I finished it when I was already an adult and I think this was the very game In which I enjoyed the side quests much more than the game itself.

If I had participated Brazil would come between the top 5, being modest. No living soul can beat me in that game. So that's that.

YEEESSS, my favorite mon of this generation. Very useful in many situations.

Plus, the guitar smashing is something I didn't know I wanted in my pokemon.

Toxtricity and Rillaboom are going to be a good duo for me...

I really liked this game - I remember picking it up as soon as it was launched. I am looking forward to this.

I loved the Pokemon Pay possibility. It is so utterly absurd that it might even happen. So I gave it my vote.

BUT, I am enjoying Shield a lot and the reduced pokedex doesn’t bother me at all.

My favorite console has to be the N64, even more than the SNES (which I play much more, even today) - but the Game Boy has a special place in my heart. I cannot wait for more ways to play Game Boy stuff - like the 3DS.

@AlienX thank you for the info. Though that maybe, who knows, I could milk a bit more resolution of the machine.

I told you all yesterday: Super Mario Galaxy 2 is THAT game. This makes me want to play it again. If I download it on the WiiU, the image quality is better than playing it on the same console, Wii Mode, 4K TV? OR it doesn't matter?

Please, observe my avatar.

Now, remember that every Metroid game is at least very good (including Other M, in my opinion).

Then realise that Metroid Prime is, with Super Metroid, two of the best videogames ever created.

Finally, be comforted by the fact that those games will always be with us.

NOW SCREAM FOR ME NINTENDO LIFE!
METROID!
METROID!
METROID!

(Sorry, got carried away).

I still recall the ads, in 1994. I wanted this game so badly to play with my cousin.

There was this saying in Brazil, when one wanted to complain about public services: "Why make your life harder, if I can make it easier?" Everybody said that with maxed out sarcasm.

Now, Nintendo's ad for DKC was: "Why make your life easier, if we can make it harder?"

So DKC became my obsession for as long as I can remember.

Then it came DKC2.

And that, my friends, is the best platformer EVER. CREATED.

When did gamers stopped enjoying having fun and started enjoying taking the fun of others away?

Some people need to learn a simple rule of simple: we've got to get over things more often than some times.

The Wii era is special to me. It brought me back to videogames after years not playing - and I enjoyed every single E3 from 2010 onwards. The Wii was absolute magic.

@GrailUK that comment of your really makes me want to play the remake they are doing for the Switch - never got to play any of the Monkey Ball games.

Several of them games I played on the PS2 (which I still own) and on the Wii (as well).

But it saddens me that I had to skip the generation and play it during the Wii era because it was my University days and I had to study Biology instead of playing Metroid Prime.

Finally Mario Maker 2!

@Brady1138 What a lovely piece of literature is The Lord of the Rings. Actually, I'd say is THE piece of literature for me. It is one that really matters - even with the songs which I enjoy very much.

I am rereading The Two Towers so I guess this is interesting...

I am really keen to support this new not-so-emerging retro industry but £150 for the cable it's a bit much. So far, products that offered me the level of experience I want for a price I am not bothered about - even though it's expensive - it's the Super Analog series. I am craving the Super NT and the new Mega Drive one. I shall wait for the N64 one - because it is, by now, only a matter of time.

Kerbal Space Program. I still want Jebediah to land on the Moon. And cannot overcome the fact that I am a science teacher who is failing in doing so. Get in Jebediah!

What an amazing interview! Thank you for that.

And please do tell him that I’ve got first place in Tetris 99 today if you please.

I love this game - but on a smartphone with ridiculously small bursts of gameplay. I wouldn't buy it for the Switch - especially for 25 quid.

@Matresende I am also Brazilian and a big fan of 99 Vidas. They are amazing and the podcast is really good. I follow them from the beginning. Here's the website: http://99vidas.com.br

That's one of the reasons I struggle in a classroom as a teacher. Parents don't tell kids to stop so I have to do it, while trying to teach sience to 30 kids without the families help.

As I get older I started hearing these kinds of news. First Yamauchi then Iwata. Now Reggie retires. I am sad that some of my childhood heroes, who provided experiences that shaped who I am, are going.

That's called life my friends.

I am really grateful for so many great memories linked to these people.

Like you, Damien, I was given a game boy in the early '90s and carried on playing Tetris until... Well, I still play anything Tetris related (provided I have BUTTONS and not touch screens) very often.

I adore Tetris. My wife is not a gamer but she does play Tetris - the original on my 3DS when she feels like playing. She is not bothered by any other versions but that Game boy one. She even undergoes theological digressions on the nature of Providence by analysing the tetrominoes falling down from heaven - and it's up to us to make them fit in our reality even when the game (life) is insanely difficult.

I suspect I will say, one day, that Tetris is the ultimate videogame because you can take it everywhere, it's very adaptable, it's entertaining and can even give us food for thought.

I dare not saying it's the greatest, yet. Because I am 33 and I hope I will see great stuff in the upcoming years.

Super Mario Galaxy 3, get in!